Lemington
Lemington | ||
---|---|---|
![]() Lemington Town Hall |
||
Location in Vermont | ||
|
||
Basic data | ||
Foundation : | June 29, 1762 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Essex County | |
Coordinates : | 44 ° 53 ′ N , 71 ° 35 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 104 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 1.1 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 92.0 km 2 (approx. 36 mi 2 ) of which 91.6 km 2 (approx. 35 mi 2 ) are land |
|
Height : | 534 m | |
Postcodes : | 05903, 05905 | |
Area code : | +1 802 | |
FIPS : | 50-39700 | |
GNIS ID : | 1462133 | |
Website : | http://Vermont.gov |
Lemington is a town in Essex County in the US state of Vermont . At the last census in 2010 it had a total of 104 inhabitants. It is part of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area .
geography
Geographical location
Lemington is in northeast Essex County. The Connecticut River forms the eastern border with New Hampshire , several smaller tributaries of the Connecticut River such as the Willard Stream in the north drain the area of the town. There are no major lakes in the town area. The surface is hilly, the highest point is the 973 m high Monadnock Mountain .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Canaan , 4.3 km
- Northeast: Colebrook , 12 miles
- Southeast: Columbia , 5.4 mi
- Southwest: Bloomfield , 3.9 mi
- West: Lewis , 11 miles
- Northwest: Averill , 5.7 mi
climate
The mean mean temperature in Lemington is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is more than two meters, about twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values in the USA, between September and mid-December it is even significantly lower.
history
The Grant for Lemington was given on June 29, 1762 with an area of 23,040 acres (about 93 km²) as one of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . Like several others, Samuel Averill from Connecticut received the grant. Another grant, also named after him, is the neighboring town of Averill. How the name of the town Lemington came about is unclear. The settlement took place mainly near the Connecticut River.
Population development
Census Results - Town of Lemington, Vermont | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
Residents | 31 | |||||||||
year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
Residents | 52 | 132 | 139 | 183 | 124 | 187 | 207 | 191 | 222 | 227 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 204 | 138 | 145 | 133 | 131 | 105 | 112 | 120 | 108 | 102 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 107 | 104 |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
On the western side, Vermont State Route 102 runs from Canaan in the north to Brunswick in the south. There are few other streets in the town area. On the eastern side of the Connecticut River, US Highway 2 runs through Coös County in New Hampshire in a northerly direction.
Public facilities
The North Country Hospital & Health Care in Newport is the closest hospital to the town's residents.
education
Lemington is part of the Essex North Supervisory Union with Bloomfield, Brunswick, Canaan and Norton .
There is no school in Lemington. The closest are the Canaan Schools in Canaan. They offer classes from kindergarten through the 12th grade for around 200 pupils.
There is no library in Lemington. The next one is in Canaan.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Edward Dow (1820-1894), architect
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III p 102 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for the period up to 1840)
- Benjamin Homer Hall: History of Eastern Vermont . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1865 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
- Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Lemington in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed May 25, 2017
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Monadnock Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed May 25, 2017
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Lemington on the City Daty portal , accessed May 25, 2017
- ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical , p. 102 , accessed May 25, 2017
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ^ Essex North Supervisory Union , accessed May 25, 2017
- ^ Canaan Schools , accessed May 25, 2015